Enter the newly-freed ‘democrazy’ Malay By Lin KayKay Dec 6, 2014 The Malays of Kampong Special Constabulary are up in arms! KUALA LUMPUR: There’s a difference between Malays and non-Malays when faced with problems like water shortages, notes Raub MP Mohd Ariff Sabri bin Abdul Aziz in the latest posting in his blog, sakmongkol AK47. Any housing estate peopled by non-Malays would be up in arms if they don’t have water for more than a day — haranguing all elected reps including the MP to get JBA and now PAIP — the corporatized or privatized JBA to deliver water. “But Malay villagers would endure these shortages in good faith attributing the miserable water supply as a vicissitude of nature,” said Ariff Sabri. What to do, it’s nature’s act! Umno has been doing the best it could! We must not upset Umno in its rapacious quest to develop the district! They have cut down trees so that we can inhabit the place, they have mined the area like the surface of the moon to deliver progress, and they have built houses for us to live! What more do we want! We can endure these hardships with the patience of Job! The people in Kampong Special Constabulary (SC) endured it for the last six years, recalled Ariff Sabri. Last week, he said, the people of Kampong SC, without the agitation of anyone, took up it upon themselves to demonstrate against the government for the lack of water supply. “As usual, the DAP was blamed for the demonstration.” Except, in this case, the blame could not hold water because all the demonstrators were Malays, he chuckled. “It’s impossible for Raub Malays to become stooges of DAP – in the Umno language, a Chinese chauvinist, racist, communist party. Impossible!” That’s what exactly happened. The Malays of Kampung SC rose up. “For God’s sake! These are Malays, ex security people, sworn enemies of any organisation remotely related to communist terrorists!” stressed Ariff Sabri. They rose up in defiance unable to contain the lies that have burdened them since 2006.” Ariff Sabri relates Kampung SC’s litany of woes: Parents have to tell their children not to come back for hari raya because, there is no water supply. The rivers behind have dried up, a PLKN camp built nearby has dammed up the water supply upstream for their own use, letting the effluent and discharge to flow into the river. “Of course the people downstream in Kampung SC cannot consume the water. They won’t take shit from the PLKN camp, built of course by an Umno crony,” said Ariff Sabri. “The inhabitants have endured the poor dismal water supply patiently since 2006.” But now the Malays of Kampung SC have acquired a new awareness, he tells excitedly. They have decided: There is nothing natural about prolonged breakdown in water supply. The prolonged disruption is simply caused by mismanagement, bad policies and human interference. Nothing to do with nature! “Malays are challenging the narration given by Umno. Malays have now acquired a new sense of political awareness and it’s causing alarm bells within the Umno establishment,” said Ariff Sabri. “This new sense of awareness reflected by the warm reception given to Lim Kit Siang, by about 40 Malays at the recent DAP Raub annual dinner, has further shocked the lazy Umno attitude.” “The new awareness, which we must cultivate, is in line with the idea of the free man.” For too long the Malays have been enslaved mentally and were drilled with the idea that everything is provided for by Umno, argued Ariff Sabri. We must not ask what Umno can do for us, but instead we must ask what we can do for Umno. That dear readers, is the Kennedy state of mind of Umno.” The Raub MP ventures that Malays must adopt a different attitude. “They must not see interruptions in water supply or for that matter any service or product socially desirable, as caused by nature,” he said. They must refuse to accept the narration given by Umno with muted pliancy. The must now ask questions as free men.” And what does the free man do? I must quote what Milton Friedman said in the 1960s, stressed Ariff Sabri. “The free man regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favours and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served. He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.” The Malay free man, pleaded Ariff Sabri, will ask neither what Umno can do for him nor what he can do for Umno. He will ask rather “What can I and my compatriots do through government” to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, continued the Raub MP, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? And he will accompany this question, said Ariff Sabri, with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Some Notes on Kampung SC: The special constabulary was a group of gendarmes created by the British to fight communists and their sympathizers. There are about 100 houses in Kampung SC, consisting of homes built on land given to former special constables and ex-servicemen. On these plots of land, probably about half an acre each or less, these people who have defended the nation against communist terrorists and other bandits, built their homes. The BN government, it was thought, would pay special attention to these people. It was a cabinet decision made by Abdul Razak a long time ago, that promised every ex-serviceman would be given a 20 acre plot of land not for mining or logging. That promise was never honoured. Today, the ex-servicemen scrounge a living as bank guards, odd-jobbers, those with some skills acquired opened up workshops, foundry works shop etc. But this particular settlement at Ulu Gali Raub has gained some sort of notoriety. Since 2006, this place has suffered from lack of piped water. Before 2013, Raub was the bastion of BN, an ADUN who was the Umno Ketua Bahagian was there for five terms and the previous MP was Ng Yen Yen. They did nothing to alleviate the problem. Nothing, other than assigning blame to the opposition. This particular constituency is looked after by the ADUN himself and the opposition DAP has only recently controlled the TRAS area which is majority Chinese. All the previous MPs, since 40 years ago, have been from BN, the seat being reserved for the Ketua Wanita MCA or a prominent leader from that wing.
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